Agra: At least 12,000 people in Firozabad are now lying in bed with viral fever that has districts in their grasp, resources in the Ministry of Health have revealed.
With four deaths again in the last 24 hours, the victim on Sunday increased to 114, including 88 children.
A national team of Disease Control (NCDC) has identified a dengue fever outbreak in the district last week.
Death continues even though there is a widespread fogging and door-to-door survey to drain stagnant water and to capture the spread of the disease transmitted through vectors.
The main source at the Ministry of Health told Toi which was estimated to be 12,000 people now lying at home or at the hospital.
On Sundays, government hospitals continue to fight to regulate bed while the price of care in private hospitals has sky-skyrocketing.
Friend, a resident of Nagar Bhim and bet every day, lost his five-year-old son after a lack of care for high fever on Sunday.
The father told Ti that a private hospital in the city had demanded Rs 30,000 in advance to start treatment.
“I asked him to start treatment and gave me the time to arrange money, but they refused.
Then, I took my child to the Firozabad medical College where the staff refused to recognize my child because the bed was not available.
I arranged a private taxi to take us to Agra, but my son died on the road, “Veer Pal said.
No official complaints made in this matter, said Medical Supervisory Chief Firozabad Medical College, Dr.
Hansraj Singh.
“We continue to add beds to adjust the increasing number of patients,” he said.
There are 64 active camps in the district and 4,800 people, including those who have fever, are undergoing treatment there, said CMO Dinesh Kumar premium.
According to the Health Department official, 578 cases of dengue fever have been confirmed in Firozabad so far.
Some cases of malaria, typhus scrub – bacterial diseases that spread by larval mites, leptospirosis, other bacterial diseases that spread through the urine of infected animals, have also been reported.
Diarrhea also appears as a threat to children.
Additional Director of the Ministry of Health, K Singh, said more than 100 health staff teams were conducting a door-to-door survey to identify patients and give them drugs and assistance needed.
“There is no shortage of platelets or drugs needed at the government centers.
Additional ambulances have been set to take patients to the hospital.
The civil body team carry out special cleanliness drives in the affected area.
All deaths have recently been investigated, “He said.